"I don't understand why the US's goal is to raise generation after generation of violent prudes. It is an odd set of priorities. I'd rather the opposite be true."
I agree with you on the prudish bit, but, c'mon...violent movies are GREAT!!
I love things like Dirty Harry...an all time classic.
I know it is rarely used, but, I thought it was still a rating that could be used. Or, did they put in NC-17 to make and X rated movie sound more politically correct?
"I think it is a myth that the windows were impacted by the explosion. They should prove it on the show. You think I'm going to accept this "fact" so easily?"
Think man!!
The real question is...could they do it again, but with Kari B. topless???
We need to see that in slow motion, high speed photography.
"Unless you take explicit steps you are not anonymous online *ever*. Even when you do, you're only as anonymous to the point of making it more difficult to find you. The trail is there, however cloudy and convoluted.
"
I dunno. At least with email, if you set up a chain of accounts that bounce around to a number of nym and mixmaster remailers...and have the final destination be a USENET group set up for nothing but encrypted messages....you are pretty close to completely anonymous.
"Either way, the goal is to create fear, uncertainty and doubt among anonymous posters. Which is quite the same as posters in China feel right now."
Hmm...I guess some day in the future, we will all be China. Strange, when I first pictured a one world order...I didn't see it patterned after a country like China.
"The winner you pick would have to be a crazy fringe candidate, though. The crazier the better. So that *no one* would think for a second that the election was valid."
I dunno. We got one this time, and it was from one of the two main parties. So far, is proving to be about as 'winged' as you can get...
"Roads so we can drive cars, and spend money on gas to get to our isolated homes where no stores or businesses are within walking distance, and enrich the global oil conglomerates and the tyrannical dictators that control the oil supplies."
I was with you on most of your stuff, except for this one. I can't really buy into it...people live spread out because, in general, we WANT to live spread out, have some breakthing room, a house with a yard....land to do and grow stuff on. It is a big country, and we've grown up as a culture with that in mind. I personally can barely stand living in a double (or duplex if you wish) sharing walls with one neighbor..I can't deal with box apartments with that many people crowded together with the noise, having to watch YOUR noise..etc.
That,and with reference to the hwys...weren't they originally established as a military defense mechanism early on? (Einsenhower?).
Anyway, I can't see the roads there being part of an oil company conspiracy. But, I do like your other topics.
"You say that, as if no one's ever come up with a good reason for gun control laws.
Here's one: bullets are hard, and people are soft."
Well, for VERY few exceptions, I see no reason for many control laws. They don't control criminals, only restrict what lawful citizens can do.
And to your example. Knives are sharp, people cut easy. Wanna regulate and control knives? (By the way, they're having a big knifing problem in England).
I don't buy that argument. People, in general, are fairly fragile beings, easy to kill. Banning or restricting access to things that hurt or kill humans, isn't very practical.
"$31.50 is pretty expensive for a paper which will say that a certain mammal can remember where it has been and can find its way back to that spot, much like most other mammals."
I hear ya.
I guess myself and most of my friends have built in GPS too. I mean, we can go to a bar, have drinks, and somehow, we all make it back to our homes and wake up in bed. Magic!!
Back in the old days....I used to call it 'autopilot', get in the car and it drives itself home.
"You'd be right if evolution wasn't clearly observable in every day life."
I think there needs to be a new term for the arguments here. I think MANY religious people, believe that evolution happens. It is just the ORIGIN of man that is where the arguments come from. And honestly, I think that is where the 'holes' exist. Is everything coming from a single celled organism and evolving into so many complex creatures as believable as having a supreme being start everything out on earth...and let it evolve? Well, to some it is.
I don't think that many people argue against evolution of current species, mutations in the genome over years, etc. But, how things began? That is the real argument.
"Bad example. You might not need the weak nuclear force, but you can't explain the observed peturbations in Neptune's orbit using Newtonian mechanics. You need general relativity."
Speaking of....
Why the hell was the Big Bang Theory preempted last night??
I prefer to have a real life, breathing, warm blooded cop there to give tickets.
This way, they can verify who it was in the car, and have them there as a witness to confront while in court.
Also...at least in LA, these camera fines are treated differently. They are not your normal traffic court proceedings, but, a weird type of civil court, and you don't have the same rights as you do in a criminal court.
Take the cameras out. Traffic infractions are not supposed to be a source of revenue, but, a deterrent for people to break the law. If they want real saftey, do what many studies show will help with redlights....extend the yellow by like 1 second. Do this if it is about safety, and not just revenue generation.
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Oh? She had a kid??
I guess that explains her getting kinda 'chunky' looking there for awhile.
I agree with you on the prudish bit, but, c'mon...violent movies are GREAT!!
I love things like Dirty Harry...an all time classic.
Yeah, but, a lot of them are fat chicks.
I don't sleep with fat chicks....and these days in the US, unfortunately, that is making the pickings slim indeed.
I know it is rarely used, but, I thought it was still a rating that could be used. Or, did they put in NC-17 to make and X rated movie sound more politically correct?
Think man!!
The real question is...could they do it again, but with Kari B. topless???
We need to see that in slow motion, high speed photography.
That's cool....
I know...I was replying more to the last bit of the summary, about them putting Doom together for the iPhone.
So when you shoot that BFG...does your whole iPhone reset....or just melt?
I dunno. At least with email, if you set up a chain of accounts that bounce around to a number of nym and mixmaster remailers...and have the final destination be a USENET group set up for nothing but encrypted messages....you are pretty close to completely anonymous.
Hmm...I guess some day in the future, we will all be China. Strange, when I first pictured a one world order...I didn't see it patterned after a country like China.
I dunno. We got one this time, and it was from one of the two main parties. So far, is proving to be about as 'winged' as you can get...
Classified where?
Wasn't this an AU list? If it is classified there, is it classified everywhere else in the world?
The aqueduct?
I was with you on most of your stuff, except for this one. I can't really buy into it...people live spread out because, in general, we WANT to live spread out, have some breakthing room, a house with a yard....land to do and grow stuff on. It is a big country, and we've grown up as a culture with that in mind. I personally can barely stand living in a double (or duplex if you wish) sharing walls with one neighbor..I can't deal with box apartments with that many people crowded together with the noise, having to watch YOUR noise..etc.
That ,and with reference to the hwys...weren't they originally established as a military defense mechanism early on? (Einsenhower?).
Anyway, I can't see the roads there being part of an oil company conspiracy. But, I do like your other topics.
Here's one: bullets are hard, and people are soft."
Well, for VERY few exceptions, I see no reason for many control laws. They don't control criminals, only restrict what lawful citizens can do.
And to your example. Knives are sharp, people cut easy. Wanna regulate and control knives? (By the way, they're having a big knifing problem in England).
I don't buy that argument. People, in general, are fairly fragile beings, easy to kill. Banning or restricting access to things that hurt or kill humans, isn't very practical.
Why?
I hear ya.
I guess myself and most of my friends have built in GPS too. I mean, we can go to a bar, have drinks, and somehow, we all make it back to our homes and wake up in bed. Magic!!
Back in the old days....I used to call it 'autopilot', get in the car and it drives itself home.
Nowdays, I guess it is called built in GPS.
But, there still is a 'missing link' on the other examples you gave...isn't there?
I've often heard it put forth....if we came from apes....why are there still apes?
I think there needs to be a new term for the arguments here. I think MANY religious people, believe that evolution happens. It is just the ORIGIN of man that is where the arguments come from. And honestly, I think that is where the 'holes' exist. Is everything coming from a single celled organism and evolving into so many complex creatures as believable as having a supreme being start everything out on earth...and let it evolve? Well, to some it is.
I don't think that many people argue against evolution of current species, mutations in the genome over years, etc. But, how things began? That is the real argument.
Speaking of....
Why the hell was the Big Bang Theory preempted last night??
8. PROFIT!!!
The cake is a lie....
Wow...I just figured it was #4 because 1-3 were types of fruit?
I prefer to have a real life, breathing, warm blooded cop there to give tickets.
This way, they can verify who it was in the car, and have them there as a witness to confront while in court.
Also...at least in LA, these camera fines are treated differently. They are not your normal traffic court proceedings, but, a weird type of civil court, and you don't have the same rights as you do in a criminal court.
Take the cameras out. Traffic infractions are not supposed to be a source of revenue, but, a deterrent for people to break the law. If they want real saftey, do what many studies show will help with redlights....extend the yellow by like 1 second. Do this if it is about safety, and not just revenue generation.
I'm looking to maybe do a barebones kit with an Intel Core i7.....I'll research that one to see if it has that capability.